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Mr. Cui Shuyao is the chief designer.
How does it make you feel that everything you’ve created is going to melt?
Harbin is following a tradition that has put light at the heart of Chinese celebrations for thousands of years.
I traveled west of Beijing to a town that’s which has preserved one of the most China's extraordinary ancient light shows.
If you want to see a century old style slice of China, Nuanquan is a good place to start.
Its name means warm spring town, and it’s colder it's called because it has a geothermal spring which never freezes, a bonus really here in the winter when the temperature drops to minus 20 degrees.
geothermal:
of or connected with the heat inside the Earth 地热的，地温的
• a geothermal power station 地热发电站
Because of this, Nuanquan has been inhabited for over 20,000 years, much of what you can see here date dates back to the Ming dynasity and it’s over 500 years old.
There’s not these But it's not just these ancient magnificent buildings I can see I've come to see, I’m here because Nanquan is a place where some of Chinese oldest new year traditions have also been perfectly preserved.
One of the most spectacular and the most dangerous of them is called “打树花”, which basically means creating a canopy of flowers.
A canopy of flowers made from flying shop shards of melting molten metal.
shards: (玻璃、陶器、金属的)碎片 Shards are pieces of broken glass, pottery, or metal.
**molten: **熔化的;熔融的 Molten rock, metal, or glass has been heated to a very high temperature and has become a hot thick liquid.
This tradition was started here five hundred years ago as a cheap alternative to fireworks by a blacksmith like Mr. Xue.
blacksmith: 铁匠 A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
[√ 2018.06.06 ] 前阵子有事情要忙，耽搁了
不过没关系，没有负担，才能走得长久，形成良性循环
